156 [On the essential connection between the infallibility and the
impeccability of the Popes, see _Janus_, pp. 113 _sqq._, and Maret,
_Du Concile Général_, vol. ii. ch. 13.—TR.]
157 [The decree of Constance defines that “every lawfully convoked
Œcumenical Council representing the Church derives its authority
immediately from Christ, and every one, the Pope included, is
subject to it in matters of faith, in the healing of schism, and the
reformation of the Church.” It was carried in full Council without a
dissentient voice.—TR.]
158 [That in fact is exactly what Antonelli calls it in his
circular.—TR.]
159 This is emphatically asserted in a sermon preached last year at
Kensington by Archbishop Manning, where he says, speaking in the
Pope’s name, “I claim to be the Supreme Judge and director of the
consciences of men; of the peasant that tills the field and the
prince that sits on the throne; of the household that lives in the
shade of privacy _and the Legislature that makes laws for
kingdoms_—I am the sole last Supreme Judge of what is right and
wrong.”
160 These letters are taken from the _Journal des Débats_ of May 6 and
11. The Bishops of Marseilles and Montpellier are said to be the
writers.